Heiners Filmseiten – Leave Us Alone! (en)

Leave Us Alone! (La’ os være)

German title: Laßt uns machen
Russian title: Оставьте нас одних
Original title: La’ os være

Alternative titles:
Let us be | Lasst uns machen

Youth drama – Denmark
Production year: 1974
Movie length: 84 minutes

Director: Ernst Johansen, Lasse Nielsen
Writer: Carsten Nielsen, Lasse Nielsen
Cinematograph: Andreas Fischer-Hansen
Music: Lasse Lunderskov, Lars Ørsted

Movie description:

Some ten- to sixteen-year-old children will not keep from their holiday, although leisure home educators strike. After burglaries and other illegal activities, they go to an uninhabited island in a stolen boat ...

In this Danish film, like the unrelated but very similar film »Lord of the Flies«, a largish group of unformed young people find themselves alone on an island with no civilizing adult presence to restrain them. In this film, the group includes adolescent and pre-adolescent boys and girls. As in the other film, the crudity of their unrestrained impulses results in murder, though for the most part they simply flirt with and bully one another.

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